Your manager makes or breaks you
Your manager makes or breaks you
Most people are smart, friendly, and happy. The pay is amazing, and promotions are part of everyone's career. Get to work on top of the most wide-reaching technology and have the backing of such a large company.
If you let them, managers will devour your entire life and get rewarded for it. Not everyone, but enough people play dirty office politics to make some departments fester and become downright poisonous.
The "away-team" model (where you work on another team's codebase) is absolutely toxic. Avoid it at ALL COSTS. It will be the worst months of your life, as you'll be expected to produce the most perfect code, improve another team's codebase, go on-call for them, and do it all faster while being slowed down by absurd, kafkaesque processes.
On-call can ruin your personal and social life, and sleep. You can be expected to work for 16 hours straight after waking up at 4 AM.
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Interviewed 5 hours after the written test. The interviewers followed an exact pattern of questions that they had prepared. I would say they need to know what they want to know, but not what the candidate knows. This clearly reflects Amazon's dictato
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Toronto, Ontario, CanadaApril 1, 2022A total of four approximately one-hour interviews were conducted on the same day. Three interviews focused on Data Structures and Algorithms, while one focused on System Design. All four interviews started with an introduction, followed by behavior
Software Development Engineer III
ItalyApril 1, 2022I received an email from the recruiter, followed by an automatic email inviting me to complete an online assessment. I am still waiting for the results and do not know if they will call me.
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Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesSeptember 1, 2021Interviewed 5 hours after the written test. The interviewers followed an exact pattern of questions that they had prepared. I would say they need to know what they want to know, but not what the candidate knows. This clearly reflects Amazon's dictato
